In the 1920’s, Le Corbusier designed Carlos de Beistegui’s apartment in Paris. The rooftop garden, with a very grand rococo fireplace one would usually find indoors, turns the usual outdoor space on its head. Here, he elaborates on it, with a mirror, candlesticks and an ornate sideboard, on grass.
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Another simple, surprising re-envisioning of an ordinary object by interior designer Andrée Putman: vintage garden chairs used forthrightly as dining chairs — indoors. They are comfortable and bouncy and have a similar, strangley modern feel as her modernized clawfoot tub. The white chairs in the image are classic Retro, easily found at yard sales and on Ebay. We’ve…
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